Updated March 27, 2026
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI research lab that develops high-performance open-source language models. Their DeepSeek-V2 and DeepSeek-Coder models have achieved state-of-the-art results on coding and reasoning benchmarks while using innovative architectures for cost-efficient training and inference. DeepSeek models are freely available for commercial use and are popular with developers seeking powerful open alternatives to proprietary models.
Turns everyday words and actions into usable training data — converting natural-language interactions into structured datasets for model training.
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